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1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that
rise up against me.
2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in
God.
Selah.
3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up
of mine head.
4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his
holy hill. Selah.
5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set
themselves against me round about.
7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine
enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the
ungodly.
8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy
people.
Selah.
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to
the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a
joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the
hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD
our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the
sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day
of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said,
It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my
ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my
rest.
1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the
upright.
2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an
instrument of ten strings.
3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in
truth.
5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the
goodness of the LORD.
6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host
of them by the breath of his mouth.
7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth
up the depth in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the
world stand in awe of him.
9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he
maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his
heart to all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom
he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the
inhabitants of the earth.
15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their
works.
16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man
is not delivered by much strength.
17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver
any by his great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon
them that hope in his mercy;
19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in
famine.
20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in
his holy name.
22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually
be in my mouth.
2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear
thereof, and be glad.
3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my
fears.
5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were
not ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of
all his troubles.
7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him,
and delivereth them.
8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that
trusteth in him.
9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that
fear him.
10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek
the LORD shall not want any good thing.
11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of
the LORD.
12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he
may see good?
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are
open unto their cry.
16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off
the remembrance of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out
of all their troubles.
18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and
saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
delivereth him out of them all.
20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous
shall be desolate.
22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them
that trust in him shall be desolate.
1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight
against them that fight against me.
2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that
persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul:
let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the
LORD chase them.
6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD
persecute them.
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which
without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that
he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
salvation.
10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which
deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor
and the needy from him that spoileth him?
11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that
I knew not.
12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I
humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own
bosom.
14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I
bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me,
and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with
their teeth.
17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
destructions, my darling from the lions.
18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise
thee among much people.
19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:
neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
against them that are quiet in the land.
21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha,
aha, our eye hath seen it.
22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not
far from me.
23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause,
my God and my Lord.
24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let
them not rejoice over me.
25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let
them not say, We have swallowed him up.
26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour
that magnify themselves against me.
27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous
cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which
hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise
all the day long.
1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious
against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the
green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land,
and verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the
desires of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall
bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy
judgment as the noonday.
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself
because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who
bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise
to do evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the
LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou
shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with
his teeth.
13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is
coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to
cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright
conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows
shall be broken.
16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of
many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD
upholdeth the righteous.
18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance
shall be for ever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of
famine they shall be satisfied.
20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall
be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they
consume away.
21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous
sheweth mercy, and giveth.
22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they
that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD
upholdeth him with his hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the
righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they
are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for
ever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
talketh of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall
slide.
32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he
is judged.
34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to
inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself
like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but
he could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of
the wicked shall be cut off.
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their
strength in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver
them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
1 O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither
is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden
they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day
long.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no
soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the
disquietness of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid
from thee.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of
mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my
kinsmen stand afar off.
12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they
that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all
the day long.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that
openeth not his mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no
reproofs.
15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me:
when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that
hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
because I follow the thing that good is.
21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my
tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before
me.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my
sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned:
then spake I with my tongue,
4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what
it is: that I may know how frail I am.
5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is
as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is
altogether vanity.
Selah.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall
gather them.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach
of the foolish.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of
thine hand.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou
makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is
vanity. Selah.
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy
peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as
all my fathers were.
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and
be no more.
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and
heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry
clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God:
many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast
done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned
up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are
more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou
opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written
of me,
8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my
heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I
have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have
declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy
lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities
have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are
more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help
me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my
soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that
wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto
me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let
such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art
my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver
him in time of trouble.
2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be
blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of
his enemies.
3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou
wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have
sinned against thee.
5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name
perish?
6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth
iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they
devise my hurt.
8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that
he lieth he shall rise up no more.
9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I
may requite them.
11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth
not triumph over me.
12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest
me before thy face for ever.
13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to
everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God.
2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come
and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually
say unto me, Where is thy God?
4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had
gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with
the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in
me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his
countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I
remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the
hill Mizar.
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy
waves and thy billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and
in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of
my life.
9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I
mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while
they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the
health of my countenance, and my God.
1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,
what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst
them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine
arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour
unto them.
4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will
we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to
shame that hated us.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.
Selah.
9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth
with our armies.
10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate
us spoil for themselves.
11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast
scattered us among the heathen.
12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy
wealth by their price.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a
derision to them that are round about us.
14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head
among the people.
15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face
hath covered me,
16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason
of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined
from thy way;
19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and
covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our
hands to a strange god;
21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the
heart.
22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted
as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for
ever.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction
and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto
the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I
have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into
thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and
thy majesty.
4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and
meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee
terrible things.
5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies;
whereby the people fall under thee.
6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy
kingdom is a right sceptre.
7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God,
thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows.
8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of
the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right
hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget
also thine own people, and thy father's house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord;
and worship thou him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the
rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of
wrought gold.
14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the
virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall
enter into the king's palace.
16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest
make princes in all the earth.
17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:
therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.